Nicolas M. Chaillan, the Air Force’s first-ever chief software officer, announced his resignation Sept. 2 in a candid LinkedIn post citing, as the final straw in his decision, diminished support for investing in the technologies needed to enable joint all-domain command and control.
Joint All-Domain Command and Control
"The Department of Defense recently declared it now has a 'North Star,' with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III’s signing of the joint all-domain command and control (JADC2) strategy. To be clear, JADC2 is not a singular program but instead a strategy designed to ...
The Department of the Air Force is pursuing a future in which it buys all its IT as a service, from cloud computing to networking and from email to the help desk.
The Defense Department is setting up a “recipe for disaster” if it does not establish a joint program executive office to coordinate joint all-domain command and control efforts across services, a top defense analyst is warning. In a brief published by the Center for Strategic ...
U.S. Northern Command boss Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck said U.S. Space Command played a critical role in a recently completed exercise that used artificial intelligence across all 11 combatant commands to provide deterrence options in a logistics-restricted environment. The experiment, the third in ...
In Defense Department wargames in 2018, America lost 18 straight competitions with a peer adversary. What was more troublesome, recalled Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, was that the United States was losing the war faster in each subsequent round. Hinote, Air Force deputy chief of ...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is fashioning a fighting force to match what he describes as the “changing character of war,” one where all domains are contested and capabilities matter more than numbers. As the United States moves away from the Middle ...
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The Air Force has set its shopping list for the first round of Advanced Battle Management System capability acquisition and is defining the requirements for future capabilities it wants to develop and buy as this new approach to command and control progresses. At the same ...